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bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
January 09 2017 02:58 GMT
#23301
Bet he's doing coc vortex, or something to do with vortex.
Pwere
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1557 Posts
January 09 2017 04:23 GMT
#23302
Uber lab is juicy today. Easy boss (gargoyles/fonts), can nuke first two phases, extra keys. Argus is kinda annoying to find in 1st room, but 5 keys 9 rooms is hard to beat.

Btw, why is Elementalist considered bad for lab? Sure, Argus takes about 15s because he's ignite immune, but Izaro isn't, and rest doesn't matter.

Might be variance because I've only done about ~20 runs, but the return has been better than T11-12 maps, gambling on enchantments is a nice bonus, plus you get all those juicy sacrifices for Guardian maps.
EchelonTee
Profile Joined February 2011
United States5260 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-09 04:51:04
January 09 2017 04:49 GMT
#23303
like you said, slow argus is bad (I find argus scarier than izaro sometimes), and elementalist has nothing special for lab aside from decent damage. Jugg / Slayer / Occultist have good defensive mechanics for lab, Assassin / Pathfinder have huge dps / speed boosts to be quicker.

(there's also some weirdness that Evo has experienced where elemental damage doesnt do as much damage to Izaro as it should, compared to similar tier red map bosses. your mileage may vary)

however if your time is good and you almost never die, then your build is good for lab, doesnt rly matter what people say.
aka "neophyte". learn lots. dont judge. laugh for no reason. be nice. seek happiness. -D[9]
Pwere
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1557 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-09 07:23:05
January 09 2017 06:51 GMT
#23304
I experienced that too. It seems golems in particular give him insane ele resist that you can't bypass, or maybe they mess with ignites/double dip. He definitely takes longer to kill than basically any boss besides Guardians, but it's still <10s per phase usually.

As for Argus, I don't find him scary at all. His AI is pretty dumb and somehow he takes several hits to kill my golem. It's simply a loss of up to 20s to kill him if he enrages early and ignores the golem. Might be different in Hc however

Elementalist might have nothing special for lab, but then again, 90% of lab is shield charging through stuff and opening chests, so I guess it doesn't matter.

On another note, is there a quantity penalty when you overlevel stuff? Iirc, you always get full quantity in maps, so blowing up larger groups in lab would still be worth it, and the music is good!
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
January 09 2017 07:43 GMT
#23305
Quantity penalty stops at either 68 or 69, can't remember which
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
January 09 2017 09:14 GMT
#23306
On January 09 2017 10:45 Lachrymose wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2017 07:34 HolydaKing wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:29 Alur wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:11 HolydaKing wrote:
Uhm, I got a pretty nooby question. If I play a Cold to Fire (with Pyre) build, would 25% elemental damage be equally good as 25% fire damage and 25% cold damage or would the later be better?

Latter is better, ele damage only applies once.

Then it kinda makes sense that the build I'm following prefers 3 point jewels. For example one of those gives 8% elemental dmg plus tops 25% cold and fire dmg from Izaro's Turmoil. Otherwise could pick up 38% elemental dmg from tree (plus 10 int/dex). Though I think I won't take the 8% mana + Izaro's Turmoil and instead pick the ele dmg nodes. Most damage comes from the ignites so cold damage won't be thaat good I think.


What are you doing that most damage comes from ignites?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1810211

Imo for Vortex CtF conversion chars usually most of the dmg comes from ignites.
Lachrymose
Profile Joined February 2008
Australia1928 Posts
January 09 2017 10:08 GMT
#23307
On January 09 2017 18:14 HolydaKing wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2017 10:45 Lachrymose wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:34 HolydaKing wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:29 Alur wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:11 HolydaKing wrote:
Uhm, I got a pretty nooby question. If I play a Cold to Fire (with Pyre) build, would 25% elemental damage be equally good as 25% fire damage and 25% cold damage or would the later be better?

Latter is better, ele damage only applies once.

Then it kinda makes sense that the build I'm following prefers 3 point jewels. For example one of those gives 8% elemental dmg plus tops 25% cold and fire dmg from Izaro's Turmoil. Otherwise could pick up 38% elemental dmg from tree (plus 10 int/dex). Though I think I won't take the 8% mana + Izaro's Turmoil and instead pick the ele dmg nodes. Most damage comes from the ignites so cold damage won't be thaat good I think.


What are you doing that most damage comes from ignites?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1810211

Imo for Vortex CtF conversion chars usually most of the dmg comes from ignites.

Looks pretty nice. Might do something like that one day.
~
-Archangel-
Profile Joined May 2010
Croatia7457 Posts
January 09 2017 10:18 GMT
#23308
On January 09 2017 18:14 HolydaKing wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2017 10:45 Lachrymose wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:34 HolydaKing wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:29 Alur wrote:
On January 09 2017 07:11 HolydaKing wrote:
Uhm, I got a pretty nooby question. If I play a Cold to Fire (with Pyre) build, would 25% elemental damage be equally good as 25% fire damage and 25% cold damage or would the later be better?

Latter is better, ele damage only applies once.

Then it kinda makes sense that the build I'm following prefers 3 point jewels. For example one of those gives 8% elemental dmg plus tops 25% cold and fire dmg from Izaro's Turmoil. Otherwise could pick up 38% elemental dmg from tree (plus 10 int/dex). Though I think I won't take the 8% mana + Izaro's Turmoil and instead pick the ele dmg nodes. Most damage comes from the ignites so cold damage won't be thaat good I think.


What are you doing that most damage comes from ignites?

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1810211

Imo for Vortex CtF conversion chars usually most of the dmg comes from ignites.

Hmm, with EE being used, ignite would need to fight vs additional 25% fire resist while cold DoT would work vs -50% resist.
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-09 10:22:08
January 09 2017 10:19 GMT
#23309
Orb of Storms does Lightning dmg. You only need to get one big fat ignite after OoS hits. For trash it doesn't matter at all.
-Archangel-
Profile Joined May 2010
Croatia7457 Posts
January 09 2017 10:22 GMT
#23310
On January 09 2017 19:19 HolydaKing wrote:
Orb of Storms does Lightning dmg. You only need to get one big fat ignite after OOS hits.

Ah so you need to make sure OoS hit first every time.

Personally I am not a fan of self cast spells that happen around you. That means you are standing there and taking damage.
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
January 09 2017 10:23 GMT
#23311
On January 09 2017 19:22 -Archangel- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2017 19:19 HolydaKing wrote:
Orb of Storms does Lightning dmg. You only need to get one big fat ignite after OOS hits.

Ah so you need to make sure OoS hit first every time.

Personally I am not a fan of self cast spells that happen around you. That means you are standing there and taking damage.

Not really need to make sure, only for bosses and even if you ignite once without it... the highest one counts.
-Archangel-
Profile Joined May 2010
Croatia7457 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-09 19:17:34
January 09 2017 12:18 GMT
#23312
Tnx to people that gave me suggestions on turning my totem character into CI but I figured out the hassle and cost is probably too much when the funds I got can be turned into expensive gear for some other character :D

Some of your seen me talk about this next character in chat but here it comes in more details for your scrutiny and advice.

It will be a Berserker Dual Wield Crit Poison Cyclone
Check the links at end of post instead
+ Show Spoiler +
Here is the tree: www.poeurl.com
And PoePlanner version: www.poeurl.com


Uniques I will be using is 2x Bino's Knife and 5L Cospri's Will

- 5L will be Cyclone (q20)+FA+Crit Damage+Added Chaos+Melee Physical (melee physical or added chaos might get replaced by Increased AoE if mapping turns out to be too slow; which would then be replaced by Conc Effect when going to fight bosses)
- As support and movement skill Whirling Blades+FA+Fortify
- Grace+Blasphemy+Assassin's Mark (because Grace seems to give more total armor than Determination when using Iron Reflexes)
- Blood Rage for frenzy charges and bonus attack speed and leech
- Rallying Cry for double dipping bonus damage
- I will be using an Ancestral Warchief totem as a ranged attacker and additional damage boost

Second curse I will apply by using Witchfire brew that will also give me bonus Evasion= bonus Armor.

The idea is to try to synergize high base crit chance of daggers with high attack speed of dual wielding and cyclone and add a lot of poison stacks (by my calculations crit chance with 4 Power Charges up while using Bino's should be around 75%). Dual wielding in Cyclone gives two hits per attack so Added Chaos damage should work well. Crit Damage gives bonus damage for both physical and chaos damage, while Berserker has two ascendancy nodes that give unspecified damage boost (50% inc and 40% more) that works for both the attack and poison afterwards and combined with Rally Cry for more double dipping I hope poison damage will be good.

I put some points into attack damage life leech and combined with Berserker life leech I am hoping that will keep the character alive.
The idea is to get hit often but leech that and vs tougher enemies Savage Hit should activate (one hit that does 15% or more damage from max life) and give me more damage and leech and attack speed.

I will not have Endurance Charges as I need Rally Cry and I need Assassin's Mark and Vulnerability and I want Savage hit to activate more often than less often. Fortify and high armor values will be my defense.

Gameplay will be:
Whirling Blades into or near packs, use Rallying Cry, mow down with Cyclone, Whirling Blades away.

Also if this turns out as a fail, I can switch to Blade Flurry :D
Or this tree can be modified a little and can work as a Hegemony's Era critstaff poison Cyclone as well

EDIT:
Alternative version of the passive tree would be this: www.poeurl.com/ZxN (poeplanner)
where I go into shadow tree, this one has less physical damage, but chaos damage and more crit damage.
After I did the math a bit, I think this is the one I will use.
Here a link to main passive tree page: www.poeurl.com/ZxZ
ASoo
Profile Joined November 2010
2865 Posts
January 09 2017 19:09 GMT
#23313
On January 09 2017 21:18 -Archangel- wrote:
Uniques I will be using is 2x Bino's Knife and 5L Cospri's Will

Wouldn't it be better to run 1 Bino's and 1 good rare? Most of the benefit of Bino's is the poison prolif and the regen, and I don't think either of those stack for wielding two of them (though I might be wrong about that...maybe if you're dual-wielding them, killing a poisoned enemy poisons nearby enemies twice?)

Worth checking into the mechanics probably.
-Archangel-
Profile Joined May 2010
Croatia7457 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-09 19:18:56
January 09 2017 19:14 GMT
#23314
On January 10 2017 04:09 ASoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2017 21:18 -Archangel- wrote:
Uniques I will be using is 2x Bino's Knife and 5L Cospri's Will

Wouldn't it be better to run 1 Bino's and 1 good rare? Most of the benefit of Bino's is the poison prolif and the regen, and I don't think either of those stack for wielding two of them (though I might be wrong about that...maybe if you're dual-wielding them, killing a poisoned enemy poisons nearby enemies twice?)

Worth checking into the mechanics probably.

Well I am certain when I have 3ex extra I can replace one or both Bino's with better rare daggers :D
I chose Bino's because their stats are very good for this for their price. I already bought two with near perfect stats, each cost me less than 10c. Also each Bino gives global crit multi and global DoT bonus. Chaos damage will probably be half my damage output and I might not find a rare that will be as good.
I will use Bino's to get to lvl 90 and then see if I can afford good upgrades.
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
January 09 2017 22:29 GMT
#23315
Today I managed ~8 min uber lab, but "only" with 4 keys. 5 keys requires getting that silver key and going through a shitty outdoor map, I did that twice and then said no thx. Added like 4-5 extra minutes for me.
Pwere
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1557 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-09 22:55:10
January 09 2017 22:54 GMT
#23316
I did dual silver key runs, one for extra key, one for lab unique. Took a bit over 15min per run including loot management, but I got Death's Door on my.. 6th run, so I think it was worth it.

I'm still well over 30c per run after ~30 uber runs this league, but closer to 4 runs per hour. Still higher hourly than doing guardians for me, and did I mention that lab music is really good? Definitely farming uber lab next league or 3.0.

On another note, does anyone BSC need Death's Door?
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
January 10 2017 00:27 GMT
#23317
Oh shit that's where deaths door drops from? I've been doing slightly longer then 9min 5 key runs and not getting the unique box cause I thought it was just any old unique.

Oh well, I made probably 4-5 ex yesterday from it.
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
January 10 2017 00:29 GMT
#23318
God I'm a littler salty about that I did a shitload of runs yesterday, I'd probably be another 4-5 ex wealthier.
EchelonTee
Profile Joined February 2011
United States5260 Posts
January 10 2017 02:37 GMT
#23319
death's door is a lab unique but I think it can drop anywhere. I'm sure I've gotten it in the end treasure room chest
aka "neophyte". learn lots. dont judge. laugh for no reason. be nice. seek happiness. -D[9]
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
January 10 2017 02:50 GMT
#23320
Yeh you can get it from end room chests, I've gotten lab only uniques. But I didn't realise the intriguing chest or w/e it is drops a lab only unique.

I did like 35 lab runs yesterday I think I would have gotten a deaths door had I done all of those.

At least an izaros turmoil.
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